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Open Access 01-12-2012 | Editorial

Perspective on long term oxygen therapy

Author: Peter Howard

Published in: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine | Issue 1/2012

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The paper by Dal Negro et al.[1] raises a number of interesting issues. Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were ranked according to hemoglobin in a program of monitored long term domiciliary oxygen therapy (LTOT). Good therapeutic compliance (mean 17 hours/24 hour day) using liquid oxygen at a flow rate of 2.3 L per minute, presumably through nasal cannulae, was achieved. This is remarkable: few schemes achieve such good adherence. Patients were mostly male, ex-smokers of mean age 71.4 years, of average body weight with few markedly over- or underweight. …

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Title: Perspective on long term oxygen therapy
Author: Peter Howard
Publication date: 01-12-2012
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine / Issue 1/2012
Electronic ISSN: 2049-6958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-7-16

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